Ebay aircar (you know we love air cars) -- which Jim found, and an LA tale. The first of my interviews for Links with my creative friend Kate McKinnon

This wrapped and embellished ring took me approximately ten hours yesterday to make. Thank you, Eni Oken http://www.enioken.com/ for your stunning brilliance in tutorials. What excellent directions, and what a non stuck up person you are. Sorry there is a piece of 28 gauge wire sticking out. Hey, I took the hand made pledge! The ring really is great! It is two tone and looks like it washed up from the sea. I relate to this ring in a manner I cannot describe.

So I DO! heartily LOVE this ring, which I have dubbed "Jean's Folly". Eni is a great teacher and creator, and designer.

Oh! PS: If you don't know what a folly is, go look it up. Sometimes learning new things is good! Yay, learning!



whom do we have here? whoo hoo!

Drew blows kisses for music. Ooooooooo.

And who is this, below, looking what some people whould called totally p.o.'d? (Pardon me).

It's John Mayer, annoyed by my son ! HAHAHAHAHA . I love it! Was he jealous or something? Let's see!

The Chateau Marmont: 8221 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California , in LA. Very infamous and famous. BOTH! Who isn't fascinated by this world-weary place, built in 1927 or 1929, depending upon where you look on google.

this story, coming up after the car story.

You like what Jim calls "flying cars"? We have had them on my blog, before. The fellow who has posted this particular one seems to need a chill pill, however. Here is the location on Ebay: Jim found it. Actually the location is a bit further down. Glad I proof these entries, geesh.

I guess, sensibly, this inventor, who is clearly smart and also has a connection to Boeing, realizes that a little extra work needs to be done before this baby flies exactly right. I personally can tell you just from looking at it for two seconds (one per each nostril) that the NOSE is "off." AND YOU KNOW JEAN KNOWS ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT NOSES, CONSIDERING THE impressive proboscis I sport. And yes, my own balance is frequently off. I have a big band-aid on my leg right now from falling over a gate and flat onto my face, here in the house. This is what we call a boo-boo or a boomie. That was cute around 25 years ago. This particular boomie hurts like heck!

I often imagine I need an air traffic controller of my very own, just for my nose. Thanks, Baldrige side of the family for this gift you passed on to me of my giant Roman coin nose. Gah!

As far as the car:

Here is the Ebay address:

Please get those bids in fast!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220188946461&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:Watchlink:middle:us#ebayphotohosting

Ok. Here is the "Chateau Marmont story":

So, my son Jim called me:

Chateau Marmont Hotel. John Belushi breathed his last there, etc. It is historic, it is exclusive, it is funky, and it has a little trick it plays on the local sightseers who line up to go have a drink there. It actually has two bars. If you are sitting in "Bar Marmont", you are a loser sightseer. I almost hate to say that, because I know that is what I would be, and I would be all happy about it too!

Now: If you are relaxing in the the "Hotel Bar", you hit the jackpot and you are L.A. GOLD! Now we all know and acknowledge that LA is pretty superficial, but my son and his band have been pals with the doorwoman at the "real bar", The Hotel Bar, since way back, so if they feel like sitting around in there soaking up the atmosphere, there they are, doing just that!
This past week, apparently Jim had been playing the piano at the secretly "in" bar, the Hotel Bar... and he was playing an old U2 song, " Where the Streets have No Name" (Jim is a big U2 fan. He was 7 when this song came out). Drew Barrymore was there and she liked his style I guess, cause she blew him a kiss! Gah! Gah! Jim's mother screaming because she loves fame!

A little while later, Jim was playing, sort of for a joke, a kind of loser song called "Torn"from the 90's, and there was John Mayer, who got visibly annoyed (!!!) and stalked out. Gah! Gah! Jim's mother screaming more cause she loves fame of all sorts, even this lame sort! AHAHAHAHAHA. I love LA! Vissistudes, Vissitudes.

It's is so funny!!! It is so fun and funny!

Important and exciting news:

My first interview from Links with one of my creative friends will be here on my blog tomorrow, published in its complete entirety! It will be with the famous Kate McKinnon. I will link to it on my sidebar as well. You will see the interviews on Amazon--all of them, linked through the Amazon link.